This new roadmap for 2011-2015 follows on the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 while setting new and more ambitious targets for the next five years. The action plan, for the first time, identifies all the research gaps that need to be filled to bring rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and a fully effective vaccine to market...
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Community Leaders
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International Agencies
2010
This brochure presents guidance to limit liver toxicity in the HIV-positive patient with latent TB infection.
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Health Professionals
2010
The white paper, or policy document, outlines the strategic vision of NCHHSTP for reducing health disparities and promoting health equity among populations affected by these diseases. NCHHSTP is committed to promoting awareness, stakeholder and community engagement, and action on factors that can affect the nation and the world's health; to addressing these factors in the policy, practice, and research activities of NCHHSTP; and to building partnerships on every level.
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Asian or Pacific Islander persons
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Policy Makers
2010
This fact sheet provides the latest data on the global tuberculosis epidemic, including impact by region, the challenges posed by drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the U.S. government response to the epidemic.
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International Agencies
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2010
Delivering HIV Rapid Test Results: Experiences from the Field is a short (approximately 30 minute) video that combines real stories from providers delivering rapid test results and clients learning their test results, as well as scripted vignettes that illustrate key points. It is designed so that it can be used both for individual study as well as in a group learning setting...
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Health Professionals
2010
This document is intended to raise awareness about TB/HIV research priorities (i.e. areas that require urgent funding and scientific interest), help coordinate advocacy efforts, and encourage research funding. The aim is to increase the implementation of high-quality, integrated TB/HIV interventions in resource-limited settings...
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International Agencies
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2010
The purpose of this document is to highlight cases in which Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) interventions have contributed to a positive outcome of tuberculosis (TB) control activities directed to a range of audiences and settings. It is intended for on-the-ground stakeholders who are interested in successfully integrating ACSM strategies and activities into TB control programming, as well as for decision-makers who can provide greater political and financial support for ACSM activities at the national, sub-national and international level.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
2010
This document addresses a broad range of ethical issues arising in TB programmes, ranging from informed consent and isolation to health-care workers' rights and obligations, and clinical and epidemiological studies.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
2010
The case highlighted in this issue came from a state health department nurse who lived in the small town located on a large Great Plains Indian reservation where this case unfolded. It involved an extended family spanning 4 generations, all of whom lived in the same 3-bedroom house.
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Health Educators/Communicators
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Social Service Providers
2010
The challenges of TB-HIV co-Infection are highlighted in this issue. Psychosocial aspects of HIV diagnosis and self-awareness are also discussed.
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Health Educators/Communicators
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Social Service Providers
2010
The Global Drug Facility (GDF) is a mechanism to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality anti-TB drugs and diagnostics to support the Stop TB Strategy.
This document outlines progress that GDF has made to date, what still needs to be done and where high-level advocacy could help GDF to further scale up its activities.
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International Agencies
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2010
The guidelines show how people with HIV can be protected from tuberculosis with regular, low-cost preventive medication. The guidelines present a set of recommendations that will help reduce TB disease in people living with HIV, their families and communities through a combination of screening for TB and provision of IPT.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
Policy Makers
2010
Drs. Jacques Grosset and Timothy Sterling will discuss the rationale for and potential new approaches to treatment of TB in HIV-infected individuals. Primary and secondary resistance of TB medications and the role of therapeutic drug monitoring for HIV-infected patients will be explored. The application of research to clinical practice will be highlighted.
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Health Professionals
2010
The Checklist is designed to provide CHWs, supervisors, and program managers (from NTPs, NGOs, CBOs, and others) with very practical ways to properly implement TB IC and to minimize risk of transmission within community residential settings, including families and households.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2010
This fact sheet provides basic information on the TB skin test.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2010
This hospital discharge approval request form is required in New York City as New York City Health Code mandates health care providers to obtain approval
from the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) before discharging infectious TB patients from the hospital.
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Health Professionals
2010
The New York City Health Code requires all health care providers to submit a written TB Treatment Plan to the New York City Department of Health & Mental
Hygiene (DOHMH) within one month of starting treatment for newly diagnosed TB patients.
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Health Professionals
2010
How to give a sample for testing for pulmonary tuberculosis. Most diagnostic tests for TB examine sputum coughed from the lungs. The lack of access to TB diagnosis is a major barrier to controlling TB which kills nearly 2 million people every year. New sensitive tests that are affordable and that can be used in a low tech environment are urgently needed.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2010
This information sheet discusses preventing occupational transmission of TB by means of an infection control program. It explains the three levels of TB infection control in health care settings: (1) administrative controls to minimize areas where exposure may occur; (2) environmental controls to reduce the concentration of airborne TB bacteria; and (3) respiratory protective equipment to be used in situations that pose a high risk of exposure...
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Health Professionals
2010
This monograph is a menu intended as a practical resource for public health officials and their legal counsel in their efforts to eliminate TB. It contains TB-related legal issues, and suggests possible approaches for addressing those issues, and provisions to be considered within the policy and legal frameworks of the jurisdiction contemplating adoption of the suggested provision...
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Policy Makers
2010